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1915-1916.26
The Birch Grove, Autumn
Alternate title: Birch and Rocks, Autumn
Winter 1915–16
Oil on canvas
40 x 46 in. (101.6 x 116.8 cm)
Inscription verso: l.r., on canvas, 24; stretcher: horizontal cross bar, in graphite, FRANK WORRALL / LINER / 28-2-61; on c. bar, BIRCH GROVE AUTUMN / BY TOM THOMSON / 1877-1917
Provenance
Estate of the artist
George Thomson, Owen Sound
Mellors-Laing Galleries, Toronto, 1941
Hamilton Club, 1943
Roy G. Cole, Hamilton, ON, 12 October 1967
Art Gallery of Hamilton (1967.112.2). Gift of Roy G. Cole, in memory of his parents, Matthew and Annie Bell Gilmore Cole, 1967
Exhibition History
1956 Thomson
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson Exhibition, 1877 - 1917, September–October 1956, no. 7.1967 Thomson
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, May 27–June 11, 1967, no. 4, lent by the Hamilton Club.1971 Thomson
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, no. 111, (repr.) Traveled to: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, January 15–February 3, 1972; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, February 25–March 31, 1972; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, April 14–May 28, 1972; Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 2–September 5, 1972.1974 Guelph
1974, no. 33.2001 Hunter
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Stand by Your Man or Annie Crawford Hurn: My Life with Tom Thomson, March 17–May 27, 2001. Traveled to: Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, June 24–August 27, 2001; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, September 22, 2001–February 2, 2002.2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 78, (repr. col.) Traveled to: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 5, 2002–January 5, 2003; Musée du Québec, Quebec City, February 6–April 3, 2003; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, May 30–September 7, 2003; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, September 29–December 7, 2003.Published References
Maclean's 1946
"Tom Thomson Master of Color." Maclean's 59, no. 1 (1 October 1946), (repr. col.)Murray 1971
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 45, 88, 96 (repr.)Hamilton Club 1973
Hamilton Club. 100th Anniversary of the Hamilton Club. Hamilton: The Club, 1973.Reid 1975
Reid. Tom Thomson: The Jack Pine. 5, Masterpieces in the National Gallery of Canada, The National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa: 1975, p. 23 as 1916–17.Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 168 (repr. col.)Laing 1979
Laing, G. Blair. Memoirs of an Art Dealer. Vol. 1. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979, p. 78.McMichael, R 1986
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, pp. 200–205.Murray 1986a
Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, pp. 74–75 (repr. col.)Art Gallery of Hamilton 1989
The Art Gallery of Hamilton: Seventy-Five Years (1914-1989). Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1989, pp. 25, pl. 66 (repr. col.)Walton 1990
Walton, Paul H. "The Group of Seven and Northern Development." RACAR 17, no. 2 (1990), pp. 173, 205 (repr.)Murray 1999b
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Trees. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 1999, pp. 110–11 as c. 1916–17 (repr. col.)Hunter 2001
Hunter, Andrew. Stand by Your Man or Anne Crawford Hurn: My Life with Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Edmonton Art Gallery and Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2001. Exhibition catalogue, p. 18 (repr.)Reid and Hill 2002
Reid, Dennis and Charles C. Hill. Tom Thomson. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre with the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 79, 134–135, 232–33 (repr. col.)Murray 2006b
Murray, Joan. Rocks: Franklin Carmichael, Arthur Lismer and the Group of Seven. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2006, pp. 92–93 (repr. col.)Remarks
Frank Worrall was a conservator who must have worked on the painting in 1961.
Record last updated May 3, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""The Birch Grove, Autumn, Winter 1915–16 (1915-1916.26)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=437 (accessed on May 5, 2025).